Friday, August 29, 2014

Sitting at airport on way back from a very successful VMworld week and thought i would put some my thoughts into a quick post. I am just going to briefly mention my highlights. Some of these are existing products and nothing new to most people and then a few new things too.

vCAC

It is like they say the future and the future is looking good.

vCloud director only available as service provide offering in near future...

This is due to the default max number of resources set for vCOPS is 10 000.
This was not enough of our environment and therefore we had to increase this max number. The way vCOPS handles resources also contributed to this alert since it does not by default delete non-existant resources. In another post I provide information on how to change this behaviour:http://virtualrealization.blogspot.com/2014/08/vcops-admin-alerts-for-vin-adapter.html

Solution:

Add the following line to the file on the analytics server:
"/usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/conf/analytics/advanced.properties

I was getting a lot of admin alarms within vCOPS for VIN adapters not able to receive data for resources.

VIN adapter instance: 200 resources do not receive data from this adapter resource
I believe the primary reason for this is because my vCloud environment is so dynamic with users deleting and creating new VM's that vCOPS and VIN are not keeping up and non-existent resources are causing the alerts.

By default vCOPS does not delete non-existant resources but I found the following KB 2020638 which provides information on changing the schedule for when deletion of old objects will take place from vCOPS.

Friday, August 8, 2014

The regular vcops-vshere WEB GUI was easy and straight forward to configure for LDAP authentication since it uses the vCenter privileges.

However vCOPS custom GUI web interface uses a custom configuration for LDAP authentication. I am also using sAMAccountName for Username Field on LDAP settings. This is not available and have to type in manually.

After setting up LDAP I tried to import the same users but receive the following error message:

Thursday, August 7, 2014

All applets and web start java applications has defaulted to high security since Update 11.
The security context that is used by vCO Client is set to high so some changes are needed within the Java control panel.

Resolution:

Open the Java Control Panel

Go to the Security tab.

At the bottom of the dialog you will see the current Exception Site List.